Improvement in separable buttons



N. P. MAKER. Separable Button.

No. 222,716. Patented Dec. 16(1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

NATHAN P. MAKER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEPARABLE BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 222,716, dated December 16, 1879; application filed September 1, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN P. MAKER, of Providence, in the Stateot' Rhode Island, have invented an Improvement in Separahle Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my invention consists in a spring and pusher cut in one piece from a plate of hard-rolled sheet metal, and having the pusher turned at right angles to the plane of the spring-plate.

Figure 1 is a sectional side view of the complete button with both parts attached to gether. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the spring as originally cut from a plate of sheet metal. Fig. 3 is the same, showing the pusher turned at right angles to the plane of the spring. Fig. 4 shows the supporting-plate as originally cut from a plate of sheet metal. Fig. 5 shows the same after the imitation pusher-head has been turned at right angles to the plane of the plate. Fig. 6 shows a spring provided with an imitation pusher-head.

In the drawings, A is the front portion, and B the back portion, of the button. A solid post having a circumferential groove near its end is attached to the back portion, B, and a hollow post, 0, is attached to the front portion by means of the plate D, upon the surface of which rests a spring, E, cut in proper curved form from a plate of sheet metal, with an enlarged end, E, which, when turned at right angles to the plane of the spring, forms the pusher-head F, which enters and projects from a slot made in the outer cup of the front portion, A, of the button.

The post-supporting plate D is first cut out, as shown in Fig. 4, and the portion Gris then twisted at right angles to the plane of the plate, so as to form the imitation pusherhead G. V

The spring E may be provided with an imitation 1:)usher-head, G, as shown in Fig. 6, and this form is preferable for all large-sized buttons, whereas in the smaller sizes it is more convenient to attach the imitation pusherhead to the plate.

I claim as my invention-#- In a separable button, the frontportion pro vided with a slotted rim, in combination with a spring and pusher-head cut from a single piece of stock, and having the pusher turned at right angles to the spring-plate, substantially as described.

NATHAN P. MAKER.

Witnesses:

HARMON S. BABCOCK, JOSEPH J. SGHOLFIELD. 

